Comments on: Australian Politicians Have Absolutely No Clue About Gaming

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:30:12 +0000

It’s counter productive to complain about how out of touch the powers-that-be are; and how loud the anti-game lobby is; unless we’re willing to step up and do something about it. The question is, why can’t the vast gaming public get it together long enough to put this kind of rubbish off the agenda. Perhaps at the next election there should be a people-under-40-who-aren’t-amazingly-conservative party on the ballot.

By: handles

handles — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:52:56 +0000

How does he compare violent video games to snuff films?
Unless he dosen't know the meaning of them he is an idiot.
And why do most of these people think there is no rating system at all?

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:06:04 +0000

That kind of ignorance makes me so god damn angry. I dont think i’d have kept anything resembling composure, being that guy in the audience as he was patronised by that woman.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:41:22 +0000

I agree with the politicians, i was playing mario kart recently and after I finished I went down to my locel shops and bought a bunch of bananas and hurled them out the window at people. If I never played Mario Kart I doubt I would have done that

By: Ian Khoo

Ian Khoo — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:33:22 +0000

I’m so incredibly annoyed at these people with the exception of Senator Arbib. You can detect that they are avoiding the issue of censorship of video games. Especially the first speaker. However, Senator Arbib seems to stay on topic, and focus on the issue of whether a game, like Fallout 3, should be permitted to be sold in Australia through the introduction of an R18+ rating system for video games.

By: Idrhys

Idrhys — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:15:56 +0000

“ethics is not catching up with technology…”

By: Joaby

Joaby — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:21:20 +0000

Actually, I misheard the host. There was a lot of background noise and I only heard Tony Jones say “inject intravenous drugs” – minus the “to help you kill more people. The interference actually becomes audible midway through the video when I’m actually given the chance to speak. It was an unfortunate situation to be put in.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:33:53 +0000

“There isn’t a rating system on video games.”

They have no idea at all.

“Films and computer games are now classified G, PG, M or MA 15+. Films can also be classified R 18+ or X 18+. R 18+ and X 18+ are not classifications for computer games.”

http://www.classification.gov.au/special.html?n=291&p=134

Honestly if you don’t know what you’re talking about keep your bloody mouth shut before you make a fool of yourself. Lucky for politicians making fools of themselves is in the job description.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:51:29 +0000

I agree with Nick that the parents are the ones raising the children of this country, and so if a parent can go to a movie store and pick up a movie and say 'yes its rated G' or 'no its rated MA' then why can't they walk into an EB store and judge a games content from a rating?

Treat Games like Movies I say! That way we can let the parents of kids decide, not the bloody government.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:14:57 +0000

I want one of them raping amatars please